supernova

See also: supèrnova and Supernova

English

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Noun

supernova (plural supernovas or supernovae)

1. (astronomy) A star which explodes, increasing its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II).

Synonyms

• SN (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• SN (abbreviation)
• supernova remnant
• supernova impostor
• failed supernova

Related terms

• nova
• dwarf nova
• hypernova
• red nova
• unnova

Translations

exploding star

• Basque: supernoba
• Belarusian: звышновая f (zvyšnovaja)
• Bulgarian: свръхнова (bg) f (svrǎhnóva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超新星 (zh) (chāoxīnxīng)

• Czech: supernova f
• Dutch: supernova (nl)
• Esperanto: supernovao
• Estonian: supernoova
• Finnish: supernova (fi)
• French: supernova (fr) f
• Georgian: ზეახალი ვარსკვლავი (zeaxali varsḳvlavi)
• German: Supernova (de) f
• Greek: υπερκαινοφανής (el) m (yperkainofanís)
• Hungarian: szupernóva (hu)
• Icelandic: sprengistjarna (is) f
• Indonesian: supernova (id)
• Irish: ollnóva
• Italian: supernova (it) f
• Japanese: 超新星 (ja) (ちょうしんせい, chōshinsei)
• Korean: 초신성 (ko) (chosinseong) (超新星 (ko))
• Latvian: pārnova f, supernova f
• Lithuanian: supernova f

• Macedonian: супернова f (supernova)
• Malay: supernova
• Maltese: supernova f
• Mongolian: нэн шинэ од (nen šine od)
• Norman: supèrnova m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supernova

  Nynorsk: supernova

• Persian: ابرنواختر‏‎ (fa) (abar-nou-axtar)
• Polish: supernowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: supernova (pt) f
• Russian: сверхно́вая звезда́ f (sverxnóvaja zvezdá), сверхно́вая f (sverxnóvaja), суперно́ва f (supernóva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: супернова f

  Roman: supernova (sh) f

• Slovak: supernova f
• Slovene: supernova f
• Spanish: supernova (es) f
• Swedish: supernova (sv) c
• Turkish: süpernova (tr)
• Ukrainian: наднова зірка f (nadnová zírka), наднова f (nadnová)
• Vietnamese: siêu tân tinh (vi) (超新星)

See also

• nova

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Finnish

Etymology

super + nova

Noun

supernova

1. supernova (exploding star)

Declension

Inflection of supernova (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		supernova	supernovat
genitive		supernovan	supernovien
partitive		supernovaa	supernovia
illative		supernovaan	supernoviin
		singular	plural
nominative		supernova	supernovat
accusative	nom.	supernova	supernovat
	gen.	supernovan
genitive		supernovan	supernovien supernovainrare
partitive		supernovaa	supernovia
inessive		supernovassa	supernovissa
elative		supernovasta	supernovista
illative		supernovaan	supernoviin
adessive		supernovalla	supernovilla
ablative		supernovalta	supernovilta
allative		supernovalle	supernoville
essive		supernovana	supernovina
translative		supernovaksi	supernoviksi
instructive		—	supernovin
abessive		supernovatta	supernovitta
comitative		—	supernovineen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.no.va/

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovae)

1. supernova

Further reading

• “supernova” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Italian

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Noun

supernova f (plural supernove)

1. supernova

Related terms

• nova

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Portuguese

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

supernova f (Cyrillic spelling супернова)

1. supernova

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Spanish

Noun

supernova m (plural supernovas)

1. supernova